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American History · 1619 — Present

African American History

Four centuries of struggle and achievement. From the first Africans brought to Jamestown in 1619, through slavery and abolition, the Civil War and Emancipation, Reconstruction and the long fight against Jim Crow, to the Civil Rights movement and beyond — the African American story, era by era.

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